[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Availability (Coverage) 2014

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 15 July 2014, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Note: IMHO Diagram/color scheme has some potential to be enhanced.

That seems kind of an understatement - the white areas are quite 
puzzeling for example - they are definitely not areas below a certain 
node density, easy to see if you compare to the recent node density map 
by Martin Raifer.  They also do not appear to be areas with low 
population density (for example large essentially unpopulated areas of 
the southern Arabian Peninsula are included).

This makes it a very misleading graphic IMO since deliberately leaving 
out significant parts of the data will influence many conclusions 
people might draw from such a map.

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Christoph Hormann
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